A Study on the Walking Transportation Characteristics

걷고싶은 도시조성을 위한 보행 특성 연구

One of the elements requiring the attention of the traffic engineer is the pedestrian. Particularly in urban and CBD locations ,the pedestrian presents an element of sharp conflict with vehicular traffic. Therefore pedestrian movements must be studied for the purpose of providing guideline for the design and operation of transportation systems. This paper addressed the characteristics of walking transportation in a big city. Especially the focuses are emphasized on the ratio occupied by pedestrian traffic among the whole unlinked trips in a city and walking time. The data for analysis are gathered in Seoul metropolitan city sampling 1,006 citizens. Compared with other similar research works this paper utilized diversified tools to acquire more useful results.